psp toolchain on linux versus devkitpro

snowsquirrel · Post by **snowsquirrel** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:28 am

Not counting OS differences, is there much difference from using the psptoolchain on linux, versus devkit pro on windows? I currently use devkit pro, but I don't use it's make system, I use Rake, which should be easy to get working on linux. Any issues anyone can think of before I make the switch?

thanks,
~S

ps - please keep this psp homebrew specific. I am familiar with linux, just not doing psp dev on it.

jimparis · Post by **jimparis** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:20 pm

Devkitpsp was last updated in April 2007. There have been 56 updates to the pspsdk since then. psptoolchain and psplibraries are always up to date when you run them.

Heimdall · Post by **Heimdall** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:46 pm

I know this is kind of cross topic but... I also noticed that devkitpro was badly outdated, and because of that I kind of merge that project with the official toolchain on the topic:

Win32 native Toolchain for PSPSDK

Basically the latest SDK running natively on windows with the difference that there is no need for a POSIX shell.

There are a couple of devpaks (in other words) popular pre compiled libraries such as SDL, ZLIB, etc... that you just install over and you can use your SDK right ahead with Visual Studio (tested on Express 2008), Eclipse CDT or from a simple DOS command prompt.

Since you don't need any fancy shell I guess you can use rake on windows too with it.

snowsquirrel · Post by **snowsquirrel** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:06 pm

Ok that is what I wanted to hear.

It should be noted that devkitpsp only shows version 9 on their website for download, but if you download the devkit updater, it installs version 11, which I think is recent within a few months. But yeah, your point is still taken.

Well that solves it, I guess I'll miss visual studio, but I don't use any other windows only software, so should be relatively painless.

Thanks,

~S